Chapter 1 A Sudden Attack

Exploding firelight and towering waves rose together, as the first cannon shell landed.

Finally, a large number of sea beasts surfaced.

They dodged the attacks and moved quickly towards the fleet. The relatively sparse barrage of artillery fire couldn't stop them. Even as blood and flesh flew across the sea, the massive tide of beasts still charged into the area within two kilometers of the fleet in a short amount of time.

"According to our calculations, their numbers exceed eighty thousand, and they have surrounded us from all four directions!"

The crew member in charge of reconnaissance quickly saw a terrifying scene on the detection equipment: a large number of sea beasts were not only directly in front of the team, but even the rear, where they had just come from, was now blocked by sea beasts that appeared out of nowhere!

This fleet had nowhere to advance or retreat!

"Immediately send a distress signal to Kuangxi Island…" The captain gritted his teeth. Their current firepower was simply not enough to resist this enormous tide of beasts. Fortunately, they were now very close to Kuangxi Island. As long as they held out until reinforcements from Kuangxi Island arrived, the tide of beasts would naturally collapse.

"Captain, our signal is being interfered with. We can't send it!"

However, the next second, a desperate situation occurred. The fleet's satellite communication signal was severely interfered with, making it impossible to transmit a request for assistance to Kuangxi Island, a thousand kilometers away!

"There must be a large number of Zhinao-type (Intelligent Brain) Beast Kings among these beasts. They are interfering with our electromagnetic signals! Our communication signals can't travel that far! We are trapped!"

The scout shouted in despair.

The captain's brow twitched.

"The fleet provides full cover, let the helicopter team leave!" After a moment of silence, the captain immediately issued an order. He knew very well who the most important "supplies" were in this transport team. The reason he had previously requested the fleet and the helicopter team to travel together was to enable joint sea-air operations in response to emergencies.

But now there were too many enemies, and even joint operations would have absolutely no chance of winning.

If the helicopter team left now, they would not only be able to protect the scientific researchers on board, but if they were fast enough, they could also reach Kuangxi Island for reinforcements, giving the fleet a chance to survive!

Otherwise, the entire team would be wiped out here.

After the captain issued this order, all the crew members understood their fate, but they were not afraid, nor did they resent it. They simply calmly remained at their battle stations, firing at the constantly encroaching sea beasts.

Buzz!

The armed helicopters opened fire, emptying all their ammunition into the swarm of beasts, and then, without stopping, they sped away from the battlefield towards Kuangxi Island.

Da da da!

The gunboats frantically fired their cannons, smashing the hideous sea beasts one by one. At this time, the sea beasts had already pounced under the ships, and even began to prepare to board. The evolutionary warriors in the fleet stood on the deck and began to kill these sea beasts preparing to land.

"Faster, faster!" The captain looked at the helicopter team in the distance and muttered to himself, "Whether we can survive depends on you!"

But just as the helicopter team had become almost invisible black dots in the captain's sight, a strange Beast King suddenly sprang out from the depths of the sea in the distance. It was a flying fish, and it was now swooping directly at the helicopter group!

Boom!

In the distant sky, a ball of fire suddenly erupted.

The captain was stunned.

His whole body trembled uncontrollably, and then he tremblingly picked up the intercom and asked in a stern voice: "Helicopter team! Helicopter team! What happened?"

"We…attacked, Beast King, destroyed one…" A broken response with a noisy current came from the intercom.

"Which number is it?" The captain asked immediately.

"…" The other party was silent for a moment, then said: "Number 6…"

The captain's eyes were hollow, and the intercom in his hand fell to the ground with a snap, breaking into two pieces.

…

"Boss, a transport team from Russia was attacked."

Inside Kuangxi Island, Qin Yiming stood in front of Li Tianran with a slightly ugly face and said softly, "By the time our people arrived, the team was almost completely wiped out. Less than thirty people survived!"

Li Tianran's brow furrowed.

Recently, he had sent a large number of pioneers and mechanical warriors out to patrol the sea in order to prevent this from happening, but the vast sea was too vast, and there were always areas that the pioneers could not patrol, so accidents still happened.

"The transport team consisted of a fleet and a helicopter team. The fleet was completely destroyed, and one of the six armed helicopters was also shot down." Qin Yiming was silent for a moment, and then said, "The helicopter that was shot down happened to be the one carrying eight Russian scientific researchers… All eight were killed."

Li Tianran closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then asked, "What about the survivors?"

Soon, the survivors of the transport team were found. After some questioning, Li Tianran determined that the two most important resources and talents in this transport mission had all been lost in this accidental attack.

The scene suddenly became silent.

This was a heavy loss, and what was heartbreaking was not the loss of resources, but the death of talent.

Li Tianran asked several pilots to retrieve the flight records, and then he and Qin Yiming watched them in detail.

After watching the videos taken from five angles, Li Tianran's brow slowly furrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "This was not an accidental attack, these videos are suspicious!"

"…" Qin Yiming raised his eyebrows.

"Ignore the first half, look at the helicopter team leaving the transport team. The No. 6 helicopter, the only one that was attacked, was in the middle of the helicopter group. This is not an easy position to be attacked, and its appearance is no different from other helicopters. It doesn't show any special characteristics."

"Look at the video of the Beast King's sudden attack at that time, slow it down a thousand times, and you can find that it bypassed the No. 4 and No. 5 helicopters, which had lower positions and were further out, and took a greater risk to attack No. 6!"

"After taking down No. 6, it didn't hesitate at all and returned directly to the sea…"

"Its target was very clear!"

Hearing Li Tianran's words, Qin Yiming was stunned and asked, "Do you mean that the Beast King knew in advance that eight scientific researchers were on board No. 6?"

"How is this possible? We and Russia used face-to-face communication throughout the personnel transfer arrangements, and it was impossible for the ancient civilization to use technological means to intercept communication information!"

"Under these circumstances, how could the news be leaked?" Qin Yiming did not understand at all.

Li Tianran was silent for a moment, and then said, "If it wasn't leaked through communication, then there is only one possibility left…"

"It's a person, someone leaked the news!"

Qin Yiming was dumbfounded.

"If the person who leaked the secret wasn't forcibly read his memory…" Li Tianran narrowed his eyes and said softly, "Then it means that there are traitors within the Human Alliance!"